Tall Timber (1926 film)

[8] Jack Maxwell, son of a wealthy stockbroker, is disowned by his father after hosting a raucous party at a cabaret that is raided by the police.

[3] In 1925 Universal announced they would make a film Tall Timber based on a novel by Gordon Goodchild, directed by Lynn Reynolds.

[12] The film was part of a slate of medium budgeted movies from Australasian which also included The Pioneers, Hills of Hate, Sunrise and The Grey Glove.

"[17] In February 1926 a number of state politicians from the New South Wales Legislative Council were invited to visit the set at Bondi Junction.

[20][21] The Sydney Morning Herald's reviewer felt the film too closely followed an American model, but wrote that the timber sequences were "more characteristically Australian and contain patches of tolerable melodrama."

Despite this fact both story and acting are gripping and Australasian Films Ltd. need by no means be ashamed of this, their latest contribution to local endeavour.

The exterior scenes are all excellently conceived and the natural comedy introduced by medium of a clever boy, adds welcome relief to the heavier passages of the story.

[3]The Bulletin also reported that "the photography is good, and the picture will stand against the ruck of American films; but the ill-written captions are a handicap.